Bøger af Maurice Baring

Maurice Baring (1874-1945) was an English dramatist, poet, novelist, translator, essayist, travel writer and war correspondent. His novel Cat's Cradle follows the life of an English girl married off to an Italian prince.

In a recent survey of Commonplace Books, John Julius Norwich declared 'the greatest of them all for my money is that of godfather Maurice Baring. One of the pleasures of dipping in to commonplace books is serendipity and in Baring's the quotient could hardly be higher.

Russian literature begins with the nineteenth century, that is to say with the reign of Alexander I. It was then that the literary fruits on which Russia has since fed were born. The seeds were sown, of course, centuries earlier. This work presents an outline of the Russian literature.